DenisM

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811.
by DenisM 6y ago
> in theory, the recycled paper will still come out as paper, thus carbon will still be there. If paper never gets recycled it will continue accumulating in the landfill at a fast pace, so more carbon gets trapped over time. If paper ge
812.
by DenisM 6y ago
Great. Can we also discuss now how recycling paper hurts climate? Modern landfills are airtight, so buried paper is sequestered carbon. Less buried paper - less sequestration.
813.
by DenisM 6y ago
I believe the term you're looking for is "plausible deniability".
814.
by DenisM 6y ago
That's not how editorial pressure works. Chomsky detailed it quite well, but in a few words: The advertisers react to "wrong" coverage by withdrawing support, the chief editor is very attuned so he assigns the right people to
815.
by DenisM 6y ago
> country that refused to go on lockdown What? Moscow lockdowns were some of the harshest outside East Asia.
816.
by DenisM 6y ago
I'm pretty sure you can learn to remove your own appendix, how hard can it be?
817.
by DenisM 6y ago
Could you change the deductible? Mine is $500, and it's just not worth losing any sleep over it. I still lock the bike because it's a hassle to not have your bike when you need it, but life is too short to be lived in obsessive an
818.
by DenisM 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time write it all out, much appreciated. Do you know if the time of day makes a different? I avoid the Sun between 9am-3pm as that seems relatively easy to get sunburned during that time, but I wonder if the alleged be
819.
by DenisM 6y ago
Except for all the skin cancer, right? FWIW, I was told that when the Sun is above 45 degrees over the horizon you will accrue DNA damage, and it stacks up over your entire lifetime. There is no "reset" or "heal", it jus
820.
by DenisM 6y ago
From HN guidelines: Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
821.
by DenisM 6y ago
California reminds me of the pre-revolutionary France #. Huge country easily dwarfing its neighbors in size and population, yet hopelessly entangled in a gridlock of various special interests to the point of strangulation. Each one pursues
822.
by DenisM 6y ago
> demand you defend your thoughts against their stupid uninformed disagreements. And I shall use this pulpit to demand, in a mixture of derision and righteous anger, that you defend your comme... ah never mind. This may not be a new thou
823.
by DenisM 6y ago
So how about some Mountain-Boting[#]? Riding a BigDog" on the mountain bike trails at crazy-stupid speeds. [#] Mountain-Boting is now a word
824.
by DenisM 6y ago
It's hard to ban at this point - they could limit cashing out options, but the blockchain itself will live on as long as there are some places in the world where you can cash out.
825.
by DenisM 6y ago
So did anyone build a twitter-over-bitcoin microblogging platform yet? That would be pretty hard to censor.
826.
by DenisM 6y ago
This book relevant to your interests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible
827.
by DenisM 6y ago
Norton Commander / FAR commander. The latter is still in use and actively developed: https://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en
828.
by DenisM 6y ago
The Enola patent was filed under pretext of it being a new organism produced by selective breeding. The pretext seems to have turned out to be false and the patent was invalidated. The fact it took so long is an atrocity but my point stand
829.
by DenisM 6y ago
AWS ELB has some level DoS protection out of the box (e.g. SYN flood), plus you can probably add another layer by manipulating security groups in response to traffic. You will lose your old IP address, but the DNS should be fully functional
830.
by DenisM 6y ago
Most likely "no", you cannot patent a plant unless you have created it yourself. I don't know where those stories come from.
831.
by DenisM 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. I
832.
by DenisM 6y ago
Some spies are overt though, and they might form a network: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/11/03/sold...
833.
by DenisM 6y ago
An autocrat himself is not rigging things, he assigns tasks to various people and holds them to account. For them it's safer to err on the side of caution, and for him it's better to reward the over-achievers than to be seen cutti
834.
by DenisM 6y ago
I did not know that, thank you.
835.
by DenisM 6y ago
So little of his work translated in English, it's a pity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rodrigues#Works_in_Engl...
836.
by DenisM 6y ago
Can't find the quote. Who was the writer?
837.
by DenisM 6y ago
> you would have already received your approval if you were willing to pay a bribe There is a law that prohibits American citizens from bribing foreign officials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practic
838.
by DenisM 6y ago
I suppose if you had good unit test coverage that would mitigate your particular problem, shifting the errors from production to your dev box. Not a solution to the static typing problem, of course. For my part I use LINQ2SQL and the whole
839.
by DenisM 6y ago
> if you write down the types up front before you start the implementation, the computer will hold your hand while you implement. This is exactly it. Thank you.
840.
by DenisM 6y ago
>would largely be supported by the entire US political establishment Well that's just the thing! We observe Trump attacked from all sides of the establishment - the left, (some of) the right, and the entire government bureaucracy (&

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